Re: More on UPS issues

[Wayne McAlpine <wmcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do a WRKSYSVAL command and take a look at QUPSDLYTIM.  It sounds to me 
like this is set to zero, which means an immediate powerdown when a 
problem is reported by the UPS.

James H H Lampert wrote:
> Last night, after nightly backups, and at the direction of my APC support
> tech, I initiated a front-panel self-test of the balky UPS.
>
> Wow! The alarm started going off, and as soon as I looked at the AS/400's
> LCD, it was going through D-series shutdown SRCs. Even after I'd let go of
> the on/test button, it was shutting itself down in a big hurry (when the
> combination of on-battery and low-battery signals initiates a LIC disaster
> shutdown, it's fast and unstoppable). Within 2 minutes, the machine was
> shut down. It took over half an hour to come back up (most of it spent
> checking the synchronization on the 100% mirrored hard drives). Glad I
> waited until after hours, even if it did mean babysitting a painfully slow
> IPL.
>
> Any ideas, short of inserting a short adapter (I'm thinking, 2-3" of
> ribbon cable, w/male and female DB9s) with the "low battery" line
> physically severed?
>
> --
> JHHL
>
>
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